It is the rare meditation on race in America that includes a parable about an exploding wading bird. But you get a crane-combustion fable in "The Shipment," the bracingly provocative and funny play about African American identity by the avant-gardist Young Jean Lee. Now on view in a Forum Theatre production cannily staged by Psalmayene 24, "The Shipment" aims to make us think hard about stereotypes and the conscious …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PM on May 27, 2015